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A fearful shadow is hanging over our impending Brexit negotations with the EU – and it centres on the very people who were most vocal in calling for a referendum in the first place: those senior Tory Eurosceptics, including the “Three Brexiteers” now billed to play the lead roles in the negotiations. What became painfully clear during the campaign was not just that the official Leavers were unable to offer a coherent “exit plan”, but that they also seemed to be woefully ignorant of the technical complexities involved in any process of leaving the EU.

Although they did not share any common strategy, the likes of Boris Johnson, David Davis, Liam Fox, Bill Cash and Co, came up with one naïve suggestion...

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